Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
haptics
1895, from haptic; see -ics.
Wiktionary
haptics
n. 1 (context medicine English) The study of the sense of touch. 2 (context computing English) The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
Wikipedia
Haptics
Haptics is any form of interaction involving touch.
It can mean:
- Haptic communication, the means by which people and other animals communicate via touching
- Haptic perception, the process of recognizing objects through touch
- Haptic poetry, a liminal art form combining characteristics of typography and sculpture
- Haptic technology, technology that interfaces with the user through the sense of touch
Usage examples of "haptics".
In the Real World, Jay sat in his office at Net Force HQ, part of the almost four-hundred-acre FBI compound at Quantico, plugged into full wirelessware haptics, including top-of-the-line optics, otics, reekers, droolers, and the brand-new version of spray-on WeatherMesh, which could be set and controlled by your computer to plus-or- minus one degree Fahrenheit, and none of the Madrid afternoon was the least bit real.